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Oct 8

Disadvantaged pupils to work alongside Royal Society fellows Partnership aims to widen participation in science, technology, engineering and maths

By Rebecca Mckelvey Uncategorized

School pupils from low-income households will get the chance to participate in work placements with Royal Society fellows as part of a scheme aimed at widening participation in science. In2ScienceUK, a charity that facilitates work experience at universities and companies for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, announced on 8 October that it would be partnering with […]

Jul 14

My Experience with in2science, by George Padolsey

By Rebecca Mckelvey Uncategorized

For the tenth time in a row, the impossibly thin piece of metal alloy broke. Of course, this wasn’t a normal metal alloy but was in-fact platinum-iridium wire. This is the kind of equipment you normally only get access to in your third year of a physics degree. Yet through the access provided by in2science, […]

Oct 7

Molly Monk and Issy Bolton at the University of Bath

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

Photo: Issy and Molly with Pawan Jolly in the department of electronic & electrical engineering Within the department we were working with the Biosensor group. During our time there we were given lots of opportunities organised by our supervisor, Pawan Jolly, to experience and learn about research science. We visited chemistry, electronics and the nanofabrication […]

Sep 7

in2scienceUK blog by Adeolu Busari

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

Despite the warning at the introduction day that the labs we will be entering will not resemble ‘a giant room filled with new state of the art tech and machinery littered with scientists in their lab coats constantly pipetting’. I still had small hopes that some aspects of the description would be true. How I […]

Sep 7

Images from Magdalena Lewoniec’s placement at the University of Bath

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Sep 2

Laing O’Rourke engineering placement: C520 Custom House Station

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

by Aneesa Ali My engineering placement was with Laing O’Rourke; an engineering enterprise based in the UK who provide engineering, construction and management services to countries all over the world. One of the projects they are currently working on is Crossrail; a new rail service in and around London which will reduce congestion on train […]

Sep 2

Primers, DNA and enzymes – it’s a PCR! by Leighvi Pilcher

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

A PCR – Polymerase Chain Reaction – is a reaction that is used to amplify the genes from a sample of DNA. In my PCR, we were trying to identify the normal “wild type” samples, and the SOD samples. I ran 12 samples in total – 2 controls (1 wild type, 1 SOD) and 10 […]

Sep 1

Histology by Ruki and Hafiza

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Ruki Ibrahim and Hafiza Irshad were supervised by Dr Laura Yates in Imperial’s Faculty of Medicine. Here they share some of the imaging work they did:

Sep 1

The effect of pH on arterial dilation and constriction, by Thulase Sivasothy

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

Thulase undertook a two-week placement in UCL’s Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, where she set up experiments to look at the effect of pH on arterial dilation and constriction, as well as trying out patch-clamping. Read about her experience here: Thulase In2ScienceUK Blog (pdf)

Sep 1

Mind control?!? by Kiran Pillai

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

Firstly I want to apologise. The majority of my week or even just a whole day was not based on mind control – it was only a small part. However what I did was as interesting as mind control. So at 8.20 Monday morning I arrive at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine to […]

Sep 1

Cancer Research at UCL, by Zoya Gokhool

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The heart of my supervisor’s research are these four words, much like a riddle in its entirety, it would be better to say the heart of this research relies in solving this particular riddle. However this puzzle goes beyond the typical, with its involvement of tissue culturing, fluorescent microscopy, something rather brilliant […]

Sep 1

Bath University’s Bee Unit

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

By Lewis Hayward The aim of my placement was to isolate a yeast (Metschnikowia pulcherrima) that is capable of producing an antibiotic from blackberry bushes found on campus. I collected 3 leaves, 3 fruits and 3 flowers from 5 bushes on Bath University’s Bee Unit. From there I had to compare yeasts growing on those […]

Aug 30

Biiftuu’s placement with Laing O’Rourke

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Biiftuu had a week-long work placement with Laing O’Rourke, looking at the work of engineers involved with the new Francis Crick Institute, as well as the new Crossrail and Underground station at Tottenham Court Road.

Aug 30

Part II: Regina’s second week at KCL

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

My second week at King’s was spent with Dr Matthew Grubb and his team consisting of Elisa Galliano and Adna Dumitriscu which I got to work with closely with. Their project was more focused on neurons and more specifically, the olfactory bulb in mice. They want to see if and how stimuli affects the AIS […]

Aug 30

Part I: Regina’s placement in Neuroscience at KCL

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by Regina Gul My placement this summer was at King’s College London in the Neuroscience department for the duration of two weeks (17th August – 28th August 2015). Before I start this entry, I would like to mention just how wonderful everyone was at making sure I was well accommodated with their work, that I […]

Aug 30

Part II: Tissue Culture

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by Hafiza Irshad During my two weeks in the lab I was given some cells to look after (A549), I developed a strong bond with these cells over the two weeks and loved them as my own. The cells divide constantly, if they outgrow their container they run the risk of dying, something I definitely […]

Aug 30

Lab work with Laura at Imperial College London

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

by Hafiza Irshad The two weeks I spent in lab were the highlight of my summer. The equipment surpassed anything we had in school labs. No squeezy pipettes, no ball pipettes – which never seem to work and amazingly, I didn’t have to wear goggles (I was safe without them). Aside from all the luxuries […]

Aug 29

Oil Red O Staining at the Lungs for Living Research Centre, UCL

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

by Charlotte Loos-Bennett While working in the Lungs for Living Research Centre at UCL I assisted with various experiments involving cellular biomedicine; particularly assessing ways to prevent the diminished function of the thymus (a lymphoid organ which produces T-lymphocytes for the immune system) with age. One said experiment was Oil red O staining. The aim […]

Aug 28

How is your personality linked to the way you write stories?

By in2scienceuk Uncategorized

By Amy Matthews My placement was at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. We have been investigating whether there is a link between personality traits and the way people add emotion to neutral stimulus. We investigated this by recruiting participants who would be the writers of stories about neutral words; before they began to […]

Aug 28

Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath

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By Shaun Mitchell From the 10th-14th August 2015 I was part of a group of 4 students researching the hydrogen storage capacity of various MOFs (Metal Organic Frameworks) within the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath. My MOF was HKUST-1, proper name Copper benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate. I synthesised this over the first two days […]